Month of Awesome Women: Martha Jones (Doctor Who)

[such_heights]

Month of Awesome Women, week one:

Hermione Granger | Tara Maclay | Gwen Cooper | Diana Barrigan | Katara | Laura Roslin | Astrid Farnsworth

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"Women might train to be doctors, but hardly a scivvy and hardly one of your colour."

"Oh, d'you think? Bones of the hand. Carpal bones, proximal row: scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform. Distal row: trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate. Then the metacarpal bones extending in three distinct phalanges: proximal, middle, distal."

Martha Jones



Martha Jones. She saves planets. You can count on her when the world's ending. She's going to be a doctor. She has the strength to walk away when the hurt outweighs the wonder of the universe.

Oh, and every time she's on screen it's like there's an explosion of rainbows and sparkles in my heart. I don't even know. When Rose left the show I felt somewhat unready to allow another companion into my heart initially, but as soon as Smith & Jones started I was smitten. Her arc in S3 frustrates me in some ways (what do you mean she doesn't get 'proper companion status' until the end of episode 6?!) it does give her ample room to demonstrate that she is more than capable of rising to any challenge.

Kidnapping? No problem. The Doctor being an arse? Yell at him until he stops. Stuck in 1913 and subjected to constant racial abuse? Snark your way through it and dream of a better tomorrow. World being slowly turned to ash, overrun by an evil overlord and his terrifying minions, all allies incapacitated and no hope? Just walk around the world, get the entirety of humanity on your side and then laugh in the Master's face, no big deal.

Then she gets whisked through the ranks of UNIT, introduces Torchwood to this notion of 'competence', has the Doctor at her beck and call, becomes BFFs with Donna, has multiple staggeringly gorgeous and heroic men wanting to marry her, is stupidly magnificent even in alternate dystopian universes, hugs Rose (GUYS, THAT MARTHA AND ROSE HUG, I'LL NEVER BE OVER IT), is prepared to blow up the entire planet if it'll stop the Daleks masterplan, and goes around being a badass and saving the universe forever.

SHE'S KIND OF AMAZING, IS WHAT I'M SAYING.

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Rec: the frozen hours by noldo
Martha, seeing the world. (Or universe, rather.)

Comments

[wildestranger]

She is my favourite omg.

[forthwritten]

I love that quote so much. Martha's definitely my favourite of Ten's companions, and it genuinely saddens me that there's so much fandom hate for her.

[such_heights]

SERIOUSLY. It boggles me a little and is also severely distressing because she's so wonderful.

[topaz_eyes]

Martha Jones pwns everyone, everywhere.

[silver_spotted]

I love this series that you're doing! Every time, your write-up makes me smile & smile.

also, Martha ♥

[such_heights]

Aw, thank you! I'm really glad to hear that, I'm having a blast writing them.

[calapine]

Yah, she is of the shiny.

[filomena]

MARRRRRTHA. Thank you for that memory of pure Marthawesome.

I think she has the best arc of all the New Who companions (leaving aside the special case of Jack). And it's all the better and more powerful because the Doctor accepts her so begrudgingly and conditionally at first.

[such_heights]

I agree, I love where they took her character in S4, Torchwood and so on. MARTHA!

[sophinisba]

YES. MARTHA JONES.

[miss_haitch]

MARTHAAAA, yay she's amazing!

introduces Torchwood to this notion of 'competence'
SO TRUE. *snerk*

[fly_to_dawn]

Martha! She is completely awesome, yes. :D

[rhivolution]

Martha pwns everything. That is all.

[watersword]

Martha Jones: my favorite forever. People who do not love Martha with the fire of a thousand burning suns baffle me — how can you not want to be Dr Martha Jones when you grow up?

[such_heights]

BASICALLY. <333

[lorax]

Marthhhhhaaaaa. I admit, Donna kind of eclipsed her as my favorite, but it was a VERY CLOSE RACE and I love her so much.

[sunnyrea.livejournal.com]

*GLOMPS MARTHA* I think she and 11 would have gotten on swimmingly. I miss her!

[fizzyblogic]

SHE IS MY FAVOURITE DOCTOR WHO COMPANION EVER OMG I LOVE HER SO MUCH. ♥_______________♥

[fallingtowers]

I never loved her more than in that moment when she told the Doctor "I'm good" and walked out on him with a smile. ♥

[petra]

Martha is, as you say, awesome. Thank you for the reminder! \o/

[some_stars]

My heart belongs to Martha, and I kind of can't even put my finger on why--I mean, obviously there are so many amazing things about her, but none of those things is what makes me go MARTHA OMG ILU FOREVER, which I did the first time I saw her and never stopped. She just...lights up the screen, and she has such amazing chemistry with Tennant, and with everyone else she shares a scene with, and basically spring of 2007 was the finest moment of my television life, is what I'm saying here.

[such_heights]

I completely understand these feelings! I felt similarly as I was writing this, that somehow I hadn't quite captured my ALL-CONSUMING ADORATION, but it'll have to do.

[zahrawithaz.livejournal.com]

Yay Martha! I actually just started watching New Who 3 in earnest, and she is completely awesome--though it's also frustrating to see how the show stacks things against her.

[such_heights]

Oh, I'm so excited to hear that! I hope you enjoy it. It definitely is frustrating at times, but I think the pay-off is worth it.

[magic_at_mungos]

I was talking about Martha on Saturday and how I basically adored her